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Crucible of Resistance: Greece, the Eurozone and the World Economic Crisis

Join us for an evening of discussion at the London book launch of ‘Crucible of Resistance: Greece, the Eurozone and the World Economic Crisis’ by Christos Laskos and Euclid Tsakalotos.
Challenging mainstream accounts of the ‘Greek Crisis’, the book argues that Greece’s exceptionalism is largely a myth. They show how the causes of the 2008 global financial crisis lie in key features of the neoliberal economic order, including income and wealth inequalities and the hollowing out of democratic institutions.
A progressive exit from the crisis, for the Eurozone as a whole, means confronting the limitations of the neoliberal order.

Speakers:

Euclid Tsakalotos is MP for the Syriza party in Greece, economic adviser to party leader Alexis Tsipras and a professor of economics at the University of Athens.
Costas Douzinas is a law professor at Birkbeck, University of London and author of Philosophy and Resistance in the Crisis: Greece and the Future of Europe.
John Palmer is visiting practitioner fellow at Sussex University European Institute and former European editor of The Guardian and founder political director of the European Policy Centre in Brussels.
Chaired by Hilary Wainwright, co-editor of Red Pepper magazine.
“Crucible of Resistance is a clear account of how Greece and the Eurozone got into such a mess. It shows that the crisis is not only economic, but also one of growing regional and social inequalities and the retreat of democracy. The authors bring to the fore what the emerging radical left in Greece and elsewhere can do to get us out of the crisis” Alexis Tsipras, head of Syriza and Leader of the Opposition in the Greek parliament.